The Washington Post has Rebecca Cho’s story about Dhani, an Indonesian rock star who is using his music to try to convince young Muslims to reject radical Islam.

From the story:

This week, the Muslim rocker was in the United States to share his message of religious tolerance with an entirely different audience: top U.S. government and military leaders at a national conference on homeland defense.

Dhani, 34, says attacking the ideology that motivates terrorists is the key to suppressing radical Islam. With a longtime acquaintance, former Indonesian president Abdurraham Wahid, Dhani spoke to the group on Tuesday about a long-term strategy to combat religious extremism.

“The countries in the West cannot be disengaged from the Muslim world,”Dhani said in an interview before his speech. “Building up the values of tolerance is critical in Indonesia and the Muslim world in order to defeat terrorism.”